Professor Peter Sheehan AO BA (Hons), PhD (Syd), FAPsS (Hon), FASSA (Hon), FAPA, FACE Professor Sheehan was appointed Vice-Chancellor of ACU National in February 1998. He obtained an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney in 1961 and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology in 1965. From 1965 to 1968 he worked in the United States as a Research Associate with the Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, the Institute of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, and was Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, at the City University of New York. He returned to Australia to the University of New England in the Department of Psychology. In 1973 he was appointed Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland and took up his current appointment from the position of Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Postgraduate Studies) at that University. He was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, California, in 1978. He was President of the International Congress of Psychology in 1988, and of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia from 1991-1993. Professor Sheehan's other appointments include Chair, National Panel (Social Sciences and Humanities) of Australian Research Grants Committee (1980-1985); Chair, Queen Elizabeth II Fellowships and Australian Research Grants Committee (1983-1985); Chair, Commonwealth Cinematograph Films Board of Review (1986-1987); Chair, Humanities and Social Sciences Panel of Australian Research Council (1990-1991); Chair, Research Grants Committee of Australian Research Council (1992-1993). Professor Sheehan was made an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia in 1995 "for service to education, research and psychology". He is an Honorary Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, The Australian Society of Hypnosis and the Australian Psychological Society. He is also a Fellow of the Australian College of Education.